Final Fantasy Explorers is a bland ‘My First Monster Hunter’
One of Final Fantasy’s strengths is how each game is different from the last. You may not care for Final Fantasy XIII, but it does...
Blade & Soul launches with 1M players in first week — MMOs are still a $11B yearly market
That didn’t take long. NCSoft’s Blade & Soul launched six days ago, and already, the publisher says 1 million people have played this massively multiplayer online role-playing game from South Korea.
Warhammer 40K makes Talisman: The Horus Heresy a true digital board game
Talisman is evolving, and it’s up to one small studio in Great Britain to oversee its metamorphosis. Nomad Games unveiled its next game last...
D&D can buy your Dungeon Masters Guild user-generated content for video games
That badass dungeon you made that makes the Tomb of Horrors look like a Rotary Club picnic could net you some bucks on the...
Plant vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2’s Backyard Battleground isn’t all about shooting up stuff
The plants and zombies have never gotten along in Suburbia. But this time things have gotten a little out of hand in the free-for-all...
Gamemakers spent nearly $630M on TV ads in 2015
How do you get people to play games? If you were a gamemaker in 2015, one of the go-to answers was apparently to advertise on...
Hot mobile topics for 2016: esports, personalization, and Internet of Things
The last decade has seen incredible progress for mobile. Smartphones have moved from a communication utility and entertainment distraction to playing an expanded role...
Crisis Mountain’s main lesson: No such thing as a random number
In my previous post, I proved that everything I know about computer games, I didn’t learn at Yale. Having taken one computer science course...
The overlooked games of 2015: World of Warships
When I was in high school, I flirted with wanting to go to the naval academy. I was big into building model ships. I...
2015’s biggest moments in esports
In the past several years, and for what will likely be several more, every year has been — and will continue to be —...